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Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. (2023)
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Scott, M. (2023). Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 26, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.1000

Book review : Rhetorics of Names and Naming (2021)
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Scott, M. (2021). Book review : Rhetorics of Names and Naming. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 69(4), 51-54. https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2021.2348

Review of Rhetorics of Names and Naming. Edited By Star Medzerian Vanguri. New York & London: Routledge. 2016. Pp. xi + 224. $52.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781138599574; $190 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781138910638; $47.65 (E-book), ISBN: 9781315693347.

Onomastics (2018)
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Scott, M. (2018). Onomastics. Year's Work in English Studies, 97(1),

Section 8 of a multi-part journal chapter.

Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs (2017)
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Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs. C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings, 5(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.14

This paper considers the visions of Scottish identity projected in twenty-first century, post-devolution Scots literature, and seeks to read them against Paul Gilroy’s Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) which examines the protean identities of post-impe... Read More about Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs.

Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson (2014)
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Scott, M. (2014). Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson. ˜The œbottle imp, 15,

In this edited volume, Robert Lawson brings together scholars with diverse specialisms including phonology, syntax, lexicology and onomastics. Jennifer Smith's Foreword sets the scene by drawing attention to the many varieties of language encountered... Read More about Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson.

Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (eds) : Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries. Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language. (2013)
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Scott, M. (2013). Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language. International Journal of Lexicography, 26(4), 514-523. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ect015

Both of the titles discussed here represent significant firsts. Scotland in Definition is the first book to chart the lexicographical history of two of Scotland’s languages—Scots and Scottish Gaelic—and in doing so it illuminates the progress of proj... Read More about Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (eds) : Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries. Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language..